Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law: raul seixas's contributions to the study of law / Faça o que tu queres pois é tudo da lei: contribuições de raul seixas para o estudo do direito

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https://doi.org/10.12957/rqi.2019.37020

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Abstract

 This article aims to demonstrate how rock, a media product derived from mass culture, can be used as a vehicle of social struggle, based on the example of Raul Seixas. Having achieved public success in the Brazilian dictatorial period, the artist tried to use his social status and his audience to disseminate ideals related to individual freedom. Knowing the Law of Thelema, Raul recreated this esoteric postulate and applied it in the social and political field, in order to diffuse its premises as a form of struggle and resistance against the dictatorship. The article, in this sense, will propose the use of rock as a way of reflecting about the law. For this, methodologically, we will investigate how and why rock should be considered a promising source of legal studies; in the sequence,  the Brazilian situation of the 70's will be contextualized, the most successful time of Raul Seixas, and we will investigate the way the artist used his prominent place to denounce and challenge the status quo.

Keywords: Freedom; Law & Music; Raul Seixas; Rock; Legal knowledge.

Resumo: O presente artigo busca demonstrar de que forma o rock, produto midiático fruto da cultura de massa, pode ser utilizado como veículo de contestação e luta social, a partir do exemplo de Raul Seixas. Tendo alcançado sucesso de público no período ditatorial brasileiro, o artista procurou utilizar seu status social e sua audiência para disseminar ideais relativos à liberdade individual. Conhecedor da Lei de Thelema, Raul ressignificou esse postulado esotérico e o aplicou no campo social e político, de modo a difundir suas premissas como forma de luta e resistência contra a ditadura. O artigo, nesse sentido, irá propor a utilização do rock como forma de se refletir sobre o direito. Para tanto, metodologicamente, se buscará investigar como e por que o rock deve ser considerado uma promissora fonte de estudos jurídicos; na sequência, será contextualizada a situação brasileira da década de 70, época de maior sucesso de Raul Seixas, e investigada a maneira como o artista utilizou de seu lugar de destaque para denunciar e contestar o status quo.

Palavras-Chave: Liberdade; Direito & Música; Raul Seixas; Rock; Conhecimento jurídico.

Author Biographies

Amanda Muniz Oliveira, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (PPGD/UFSC)

Doctoral student and Master of Law / PPGD / UFSC. Researcher at the Knowing Law Center - NECODI (UFSC / CNPq). Researcher at the Research Group on Modeling and Understanding of Social Systems: Law, State, Society and Politics (UFSC / CNPq). Researcher of the Research Project Lilith: Law and Intersectionalities. (CCJ / UFSC). CAPES scholarship.

Horácio Wanderlei Rodrigues, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito da Faculdade Meridional (PPGD/IMED)

Doctor of Law (Philosophy of Law and Politics) and Master of Law (Legal and Political Institutions) by the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). Completed post-doctoral studies in Philosophy at the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS) and in Education at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Permanent Professor of the Postgraduate Program in Law (PPGD) of the Meridional College (IMED / RS). Professor of Process Theory at the Department of Law and Permanent Professor of the Postgraduate Program in Law at UFSC, from 1991 to 2016. Coordinator of the Professional Master's Degree in Law at UFSC from 2015 to 2016. Researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technological Development (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq) and of Meridional Foundation. Chairman of the Legal Education Committee of OAB / SC. Member of the Ibero-American Institute of Procedural Law (IIDP). Founding partner of the National Council for Research and Post-Graduation in Law (CONPEDI) and of the Brazilian Association of Law Education (ABEDi). Has published several books and a hundred articles in specialized collections and journals, especially on Teaching and Research in Law, Educational Law, Procedural Law and Process Theory.

Leilane Serratine Grubba, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito da Faculdade Meridional (PPGD/IMED)

Doctor of Law (UFSC), Master in Law (UFSC) and is studying at Fronteira Sul Federal University’s Interdisciplinary Master's in Human Sciences (UFFS). She had completed her Post-doctoral internship at Federal University of Santa Catarina. Permanent Professor of Law at Faculdade Meridional (IMED). Researcher at Fundação Meridional. Coordinator of the Research Project FUNDDIH – Foundations and Dimensions of Human Rights (IMED / CNPq). Coordinator of CineLaw Research and Extension Project - Cinema, Human Rights and Society: ways for Empowerment (CNPq / IMED), supported by the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights (IIHR) and the Youth for Human Rights (YHRB) Program.

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2019-02-04

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Oliveira, A. M., Rodrigues, H. W., & Grubba, L. S. (2019). Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law: raul seixas’s contributions to the study of law / Faça o que tu queres pois é tudo da lei: contribuições de raul seixas para o estudo do direito. REVISTA QUAESTIO IURIS, 12(1), 100–121. https://doi.org/10.12957/rqi.2019.37020

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Vol. 12 No. 1 (2019): REVISTA QUAESTIO IURIS - VOL. 12, N°01

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